Improvement in leather dressings



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOSEPH N. BARATTA, OF AYER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN LEATHER-DRESSINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,400, dated November 26, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH N. BARATTA, of the town of Ayer, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain Compound, called Leather-Dressing,-

of which the following is a specification:

The nature of this invention of the said BARA'rrA consists in mixing boiled linseed oil, asphaltum, pitch, bees-wax, gum arabio, mutton-tallow, and lamp-black in such proportions and in the manner herein described; the object being to obtain a new and improved leather dressing and blacking which shall have a permanent gloss without rubbing, and

ture in the quantities named above being about ten pounds.

This dressing has been found to be of the greatest practical utility, as it fills up the pores of the leather, rendering the same soft and pliable, while it also becomes water-proof; and in its application to boots and shoes it possesses many advantages over the ordinary dressing in use, among which, besides the ones named, may be mentioned the quality it has of retaining a permanent gloss when once applied, which is not affected by exposure to snow or water, a single application a week being sufficient, without polishing by brushing, to give a bright gloss, and without injury, but advantage, to the leather. 7

It has been found that leather thus rendered water-proof is much better than rubber, having none of the disadvantages of the latter, and that, by means of the warmth and dryness of the feet when exposed to wet and snow, many persons who have suffered from rheumatism and similar diseases have been cured.

In practice this blacking or dressing has all the advantages of the best polish, is as useful in keeping the feet dry when applied to boots and shoes as India rubber, while it is lasting and durable and improves the leather to which it is applied.

In applying this blacking it is best to use a soft brush, and use the dressing slightly warm, but not sufliciently hot to burn the leather.

I claim as my invention Y The compound herein described, when composed of the ingredients named, in substantially the proportionsmentioned.

JOSEPH N. BARATTA.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH B. GARDIN'ER, A. G. PAUL. 

